Hail damage from earlier in the growing season is impacting the quality of spring wheat near Crookston, Minnesota. “It looks like about 15 percent damage at the most.” Gary Wagner says other crops like soybeans are coming back from the hail. The sugarbeets and are benefiting from the rains. There is some disease in the wheat and sugarbeets. “Walking with Jochum Wiersma Friday we saw a little bit of scab in the field. Even though we sprayed fungicide on it we’re having problems with sawfly.”
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